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[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

And also the tools of voat reinforced the existing echo-chamber, they had brigades to 'protect voat' that would downvote/censor opposing views, and you weren't allowed to downvote them back until you got 100 upvotes, which never happened because you were always being brigaded. So the most extreme and dedicated people took over the culture and were able to box out other cultures on the site